Hard Times. For These Times

No book-club issue at this date. The trap here is the later binding states and the 'first thus' American issues: the Harper cloth-bound copies are described by dealers as the second Harper edition, preceded by the McElrath and Harper wrappers editions, and are not the true first. Copies outside the horizontally-ribbed olive-green moire primary binding with 'Price 5/-' gilt at spine foot are later binding states. Household Words serial parts extracted and bound up are not the book edition.